Best Programming Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated programming games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Programming games on Steam.

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Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 May 2020
Bot Studio for Discord The easiest way to make Discord bots. A drag and drop editor makes it simple to create the perfect bot for your servers, no coding required!

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2020
Levelhead: Platformer Maker Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Precision platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and a galaxy full of jokes await you in Levelhead!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Apr 2020
Mechanica Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 28 Feb 2020
MOLEK-SYNTEZ Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Price -95% 0.56€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Nov 2019
Autonauts In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Price -98% 0.52€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019
Automachef Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Price -96% 0.68€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Jul 2019
异常 | Exception Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.

Price 3.29€
Rating 9.2
Release 04 Jul 2019
GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 May 2019
Drunken Wrestlers 2 Drunken Wrestlers 2 is a funny physics-based multiplayer fighting game. Features include character customization and a powerful mod editor integrated with Steam Workshop.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Apr 2019
Baba Is You Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Price -21% 9.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 13 Mar 2019
I hate this game I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Price 1.60€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Mar 2019
while True: learn() You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

Price -65% 3.85€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
EXAPUNKS The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Price -96% 0.83€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Oct 2018
7 Billion Humans Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Price -86% 2.08€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Aug 2018
Planetoid Pioneers Explore deep circular worlds in this Physicsvania with couch Co-Op combat, crafting, and ridiculous physics fails! Also bring your own game ideas to life with the powerful engine and integrated game development tools. Each Planetoid is a whole separate game mode that you can fully edit and easily share!

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.1
Release 08 Feb 2018
Total Miner Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 Dec 2017
Grey Hack Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Dec 2017
Opus Magnum Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Price -69% 6.13€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Dec 2017
Discord Bot Maker Discord Bot Maker is a powerful bot development tool for the #1 text and voice chat service for gamers: Discord. With this tool, you and your teammates can take your social experience to the next level!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Aug 2017
Open Sorcery BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.

Price -73% 1.10€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Feb 2017
Mainlining After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.

Price -90% 1.15€
Rating 7.3
Release 26 Jan 2017
MHRD MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Jan 2017
SHENZHEN I/O BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Price -61% 5.85€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2016